Collective Participation and Audience Engagement in Rap Music
Why do rap MCs present their studio recorded lyrics as zlive and directy? Why do they so insistently define abilities or actions, theirs or someone else’s, against a pre-existing signifier? This book examines the compositional practice of rap lyricists and offers compelling answers to these question...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing
2019.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Springer eBooks.
Pop Music, Culture and Identity. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39889452*spi |
| Sumario: | Why do rap MCs present their studio recorded lyrics as zlive and directy? Why do they so insistently define abilities or actions, theirs or someone else’s, against a pre-existing signifier? This book examines the compositional practice of rap lyricists and offers compelling answers to these questions. Through a 40 year-span analysis of the music, it argues that whether through the privileging of chanted call-and-response phrases or through rhetorical strategies meant to assist in getting one’s listening audience open, the focus of the first rap MCs on community building and successful performer-audience cooperation has remained prevalent on rap records with lyrics and production techniques encouraging the listener to become physically and emotionally involved in recorded performances. Relating rap’s rhetorical strategy of posing inferences through intertextuality to early call-and-response routines and crowd-controlling techniques, this study emphasizes how the dynamic and collective elements from the stage performances and battles of the formative years of rap have remained relevant in the creative process behind this music. It contends that the customary use of identifiable references and similes by rap lyricists works as a fluid interchange designed to keep the listener involved in the performance. Like call-and-response in live performances, it involves a dynamic form of communication and places MCs in a position where they activate the shared knowledge of their audience, making sure that they zknow what they mean,y thus transforming their mediated lyrics into a collective and engaging performance. |
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| Descripción Física: | XI, 150 p. : 6 il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9783030253776 |
